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ISSIUE 71 MARCH 2015 THE REPORT The Magazine of the International Institute of Marine Surveying NGO SHIPBREAKING PLATFORM: DIRTY AND DANGEROUS SHIPBREAKING THE HEAVY LIFT LOADING SPECIAL REPORT: MARITIME CRIME OF THE M/V FIGURES FOR 2014 “HAPPY STAR” PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY INSURANCE SCHEME FOR IIMS MEMBERS This specialist marine surveyor’s We are able to arrange insurance professional indemnity scheme has cover for all types of marine and been set up specifically for members commercial risks in addition to the IIMS Surveyors Professional of the Institute and its benefits include: Indemnity Scheme. 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VAT The ties are made was was of 100% silk and £9.00 £8.50 features the motif from the IIMS logo. Please visit iims.org.uk/ merchandise-sale/ to see the full availablity and how to purchase. THE REPORT The Magazine of the International Institute of Marine Surveying March 2015 • Issue 71 Cover Image: Sammy Paglomutan, Able Bodied Seaman (AB) Contents with BigLift Shipping. Photograph by Drew Korek 24 • IIMS APPOINTED to LAUNCH CMID VESSEL 28 INSPEctoR AccREDITATION scHEME FOR IMCA 28 • THE HEAVY LIFT LOADING oF THE M/V “HAPPY STAR” 34 • NGO SHIPBREAKING PLATFORM: DIRTY AND dANGEROUS SHIPBREAKING 04 • EditoR’S LEttER 41 • YoU ARE NEVER too OLD 13 to LEARN! 05 • THE PRESIDENT’S COLUMN 45 • WAtcHOUT: 06 • IIMS ORGANISATION COMMUNICATIONS AND STRUctURE BREAKdown 07 • MARINE NEWS 46 • HAPPY TALK: vERBAL commUNICATIONS 13 • MEMBERS’ NEWS AND EFFEctivE NAVIGATION 18 • SPECIAL REPORT: 48 • INTERPRETING DATA: MARITIME CRIME A HUMAN-TECHNOLOGY FIGURES FOR 2014 PARTNERSHIP 23 • A SURVEYOR SPEAKS OUT 50 • AN INTRODUCTION TO RUST ABOUT THE RECREATIONAL CRAFT DIREctivE 56 • JOIN ovER 5,000 intERNATIONAL visitoRS AT OCEAN BUSINESS 2015 58 • FIFTY SHADES OF INSURANCE: CHAPTER 4 Now you’ve discovered 24 39 your needs – what next! The Report • March 2015 • Issue 71 | 3 Editor’s Letter Dear Member Turn to pages 24-27 to read about the to Learn’ (pages 39-41), John Kilhams scheme, its aims and how it will work. writes about the IIMS BTEC distance Welcome to The Report Magazine learning HNC and HND in Marine March 2015 issue number 71. Membership of the Institute Surveying, the only qualification of continues to grow. So it is fitting its kind in the world to be externally Since we rebranded and relaunched that we have launched an additional awarded and recognised. the magazine at the start of 2014, membership benefit in the form of this issue is, in my opinion, the most the IIMS Membership Travel Scheme I am grateful to the ever youthful diverse editorially we have produced (see page 15). Jeffrey Casciani-Wood (aka Mog) for and certainly contains the most putting together the most thorough pages too. So I recommend you settle I was fortunate enough to visit article entitled ‘An Introduction to Rust’ back and enjoy some serious reading. the nearby offices of Dryad (pages 50-55). Maritime in Portsmouth to see their The year has certainly got off to a operations room recently. Maritime Also very news worthy is confirmation lively start. We have welcomed two surveillance, intelligence and that the iconic Old Library at Lloyds of new members to the IIMS head office security is a fascinating business. London has been secured for the IIMS team (see page 16). Business has Their report on pages 18-22 makes Conference on 7/8 September 2015. been brisk during the first quarter for interesting reading. See page 13 for more details. as we have become active on many fronts, some of which you can read My colleagues and I have been And finally, not a read for the feint about in this issue. following with great interest the hearted, but we commissioned NGO Happy Star heavy lift project that has Shipbreaking Platform to write what The most important news item been overseen by IIMS member Drew turns out to be a thought provoking to report on is IMCA’s decision to Korek. He has kept us up to date with article on the dirty business of end- appoint MSA (IIMS’s commercial some amazing photos of the project of-life shipbreaking, particularly on subsidiary) to develop and launch an (one of which is on the front cover tidal beaches. See page 34. accreditation scheme for their CMID of this magazine). Read his account Inspectors on a five year contract. of events of the loading taken as Happy surveying! This is the culmination of 12 month’s extracts from his original survey discussion and is a significant bit of report on pages 28-32. And if this work. We are well underway with fascinates you, keep an eye out for the planning stages now with a the film that has been made by the view to rolling it out mid-year. This Discovery Channel of this project. Mike Schwarz programme will firmly cement IIMS Chief Executive Officer at the heart of the maritime industry. Under the title of ‘You are Never too Old International Institute of Marine Surveying President: Capt Bertrand Apperry (FIIMS) Head Office Team Vice President: Mr Adam Brancher (MIIMS) Mrs Jan Cox Membership Administrator Mrs Anne Liversedge Student Support Administrator Deputy Vice President: Capt Zarir Irani (FIIMS) Mrs Vicky Lawrence Financial Controller Miss Chloé Bruce Education Course Programme Administrator Chief Executive Officer: Mr Mike Schwarz Mr Craig Williams Graphic Designer Mrs Tania Bernice Certifying Authority Administrator Immediate Past President: Miss Sam Legg Administrator Mrs Hilary Excell Marine Surveying Academy Business Manager Capt Satish Anand (HonFIIMS) Tel: +44 (0) 23 9238 5223 | Email: [email protected] | IIMS, Murrills House, 48 East Street, Portchester, Hampshire, PO16 9XS, UK | www.iims.org.uk © The International Institute of Marine Surveying 2015 - The Institute and authors accept no responsibility for any opinions, statements or errors made in any article, feature or letter published in this Magazine. 4 | The Report • June 2014 The President’s Column Dear IIMS Member When the wages of Filipino embarquements pour finaliser leur seafarers reach the level of ours in formation se réduit comme peau We can bury our heads in the Europe, it will be too late - there de chagrin. Les journaux spécialisés sand and refuse to see that jobs will not be enough European ne nous annoncent que des for national seafarers are on the trained officers on the market. dépavillonnements pour des raisons decrease in our industry with the They will be perhaps in para- essentielles de coût même sous consequences being that there will maritime activities, but not in the registre international. be fewer national surveyors. marine surveying industry which requires, as its name indicates, the Pour les français et les british, il Refusing to face reality and, necessary maritime experience. reste quelques niches à présent (contrary to all analysis), the French très recherchées comme les ferries Authorities have recently ratified the So what can be done? The best … qui sont encore sous un accord project of the new Ecole Nationale solution is still the same as it tripartite heureusement. Pour Supérieure Maritime (ENSM) always has been - to obtain a les british il y a aussi par chance, with a lot of cadets who will have quota of European officers on l’offshore Mer du Nord! great difficulty finding their first board ships belonging to European embarkation under the French flag, owners (independent of the flag) C’est cela la réalité actuelle, les or even to finalise their training. calling at European ports and, armateurs et les affréteurs, après The specialist press announces in addition, to refuse low cost avoir un peu « flippé » lorsque l’EMSA deflagging, essential due to the cost seafarers on European ferries. s’en est allé inspecter les centres de of the flag/crew even under the Reference : French newspapers formation des Philippines, recherchent international register. and RMT report January 2015 la petite économie sur les salaires et les congés : Il n’y a pas photo! For the French and the British there are still some much sought Lorsque les salaires des philippins after niches such as the ferries, Et en Français... arriveront au niveau des nôtres en which are still under a tripartite Europe… ce sera trop tard il n’y aura agreement of government, unions Sauf à ne pas vouloir le voir plus d’officiers de formés. Ils seront and owners. And the British et pratiquer la réaction de peut-être tous dans le para-maritime additionally have the offshore l’autruche, lorsque les emplois de mais pas dans l’expertise maritime floating units in the North Sea! marins nationaux diminuent, les qui réclame comme son nom perspectives de voir les experts l’indique une certaine expérience.
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